Comments on: Blitzer: Renewed talk of 'dream ticket'

By: Donna in Sebastopol

Donna in Sebastopol — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:19:12 +0000

Why in the world would Obama do that to his campaign? There are a lot of more worthy VPs out there.

My favorite would be Republican Chuck Hagel. Now THAT would be change in a way that would remake politics in this country.

Obama/Hagel 08

By: Independent for Obama

Independent for Obama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:19:06 +0000

Also – if HRC is on an Obama ticket, I'll vote McCain. I'm an independent – I agree and disagree with some things about both sides, but I would NEVER vote for HRC.

And please don't tell me I'm sexist – I'm a successful professional white woman.

By: bigben

bigben — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:18:26 +0000

new arc poll clinton 60% obama 34%

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:18:02 +0000

As the Democratic nominee Senator Obama should be able to pick who he wants for VP. Senators Obama and Clinton are too different – it would be like mixing oil and water together. If I were Senator Obama I would take my chances on picking who I wanted rather than choosing Senator Clinton just because. After the Vanity Fair article, and only God knows what the Republicans have on Senator Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, and some of the things that are out on the web – heck that stuff would put Senator Obama's church stuff to sleep. So, in my opinion – no.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:57 +0000

Whatever the ticket looks like, I'll gladly vote for it. No way I will support 4 more years of essentially the same nonsense we've seen for the last 8 years....and that's exactly what McBush would give us.

By: Rick in Oregon

Rick in Oregon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:51 +0000

I think that a joint ticket is truley the best way to win. Remember Kennedy/Johnson. They were very different men but when they joined together the election was a landslide and they both were able to get many great things done for our country.

Joining forces and being adult about all of this is the true way of the democrat party. We are strong and this will show that we are all mature enough to come together for the greater good of our country.

By: Beltway Insider

Beltway Insider — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:47 +0000

The only renewed talk about this is apparently in your fevered imagination.

By: VM

VM — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:44 +0000

I'm strongly opposed to Hillary Clinton being on any ticket ever again. She has really shown that she could care less about the Democratic party.

By: proud army and navy mom

proud army and navy mom — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:21 +0000

WOLF, are you obsessed with hillary? you and a few other miserable people have been trying to push her down Sen Obama's throat since you realized she was losing.

let mccain have her. she more in line with mcbush's views. end of story.

By: Greg Pottstown, Pa.

Greg Pottstown, Pa. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:03 +0000

Clinton is his best chance. Without her he will loose.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:02 +0000

It is the nominee's right to choose his or her VP. It is an insult to suggest otherwise.

By: Willy

Willy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:16:34 +0000

Wolf who?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:16:17 +0000

Oh boy, am I sick of hearing this nonsense!

Not. Gonna. Happen.

Get over it, America juste voted for change...why would Obama take a step backwards?!

By: HILLARY CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER!!

HILLARY CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER!! — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:53 +0000

HILLARY WON BIG LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!

By: Lindsay in CA

Lindsay in CA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:53 +0000

That ticket is NOT a dream ticket. Obama gains nothing by picking Clinton (that he couldn't gain by picking someone else) and with her, he gets all the negativity that she brings to the ticket. Biden, Richardson, or Sebelius are all infinitely better choices, and it appears that he actually likes these folks.

By: GE is already lost

GE is already lost — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:44 +0000

Obama is a leftist loser who stole the nomination by cheating and dirty politics.

We will write Hillary Clinton in in Nov.

Obama has already lost the GE.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:41 +0000

It is not a good idea.

By: george firmeza

george firmeza — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:32 +0000

The idea is so preposterous it could hardly be called a "dream ticket". I am always intrigued at the reasons why some sectors of the media keep bringing it up.

By: carmen

carmen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:03 +0000

Read everybody's lips, except the Clintons and surrogates -N-O-

By: HILLARY CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER!!

HILLARY CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER!! — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:14:45 +0000

I HOPE THAT HILLARY WOULD SAY NO TO THIS LOW LIFE!
LET HIM SCREW IT UP ON HIS OWN!
I DON'T THINK HE WILL EVEN MAKE IT PAST DECEMBER IF HE GETS NOMINATED!!!!!
HE IS A FAKE AND IT WILL COME OUT!!!!!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:14:26 +0000

It appears there is a movement to encourage Hillary to run as an independent candidate. If the democrats do not choose her for our candidate for president, I will join the ranks to encourage her to run as an independent. Our nation needs that health care program she has worked so long and hard to achieve and I feel we should really vote for the country's best interest and not the party. If Obama voted "present" to appease the lobbiest financing his Illinois Senate campaign, he may not have the backbone to go against the powerful insurance industry to get a viable national program initiated. Hillary....stick to you plan....whichever party will get you there....go for it!

By: David S., CA

David S., CA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:14:14 +0000

Blitzer is crazy. Obama would be an idiot to have that egomaniac as a VP. He'd have both Hillary and Bill trying to run the show.

He needs a good conservative democrat to make his candidacy have any shot at the election.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:14:07 +0000

The way Hillary has run her campaign shows she's the last person we want anywhere close to the presidency if we want to try to bring anything resembling principles to the White House. We've rarely actually had any, but at least in the past, we *tried* somewhat. The current administration has blatantly thrown them out the window, and we need someone who has some to be on the ticket with Obama.

By: Capt. Smash, Salt Lake City, Utah

Capt. Smash, Salt Lake City, Utah — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:51 +0000

Buzz on the Capitol Hill suggests that has many as 34 of the undeclared superdelegates residing in the House will endorse Obama by Wednesday. As many as 18 of these 34 - many of them elected to Congress in the last four years - will come out for Obama tomorrow so he can edge closer to his magic number before the vote counting ends in South Dakota and Montana. The biggest Obama get in the House to date will come tomorrow when House Dem Caucus Chairman Jim Clyburn officially declares.

No other member of the Dem leadership is expected to endorse Obama while Clinton is still running.

By: Vote against Obama

Vote against Obama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:50 +0000

Hill is too good to be on any ticket with the sleazy Obama.

Besides Obama is set to lose in Nov.

After the way the democrats, the DNC, the Obama campaign and supporters trashed Hillary, they will never re-gain the votes of all those alienated demcrats.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:50 +0000

Well, she certainly needs him to further her ambitions, but he does not and should not offer her vp. He wants to move ahead with an entirely new political concept and carrying her and her baggage would be counter productive. I cannot wait to see who he chooses because I know it will be someone who shares his views. And she does not.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:28 +0000

A ticket with Hilary will be the wrong move. She does not deserve to be on a ticket with Obama. She has really shown her true feelings about him and she would continue to undermine him in whatever he is trying to accomplish. She cannot be trusted, and then have Bill in the White House again, would be a DISASTER!!!

By: Samuel T. Horton

Samuel T. Horton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:26 +0000

Obama must offer the VP spot to Clinton.

He cannot afford to spend the enormous resources trying to win over blue collar workers, women, seniors and latino's.

All the republicans have to do is to keep driving the wedge between the Obama and Clinton supporters.

President Clinton today made very strong remarks about getting away from politics.

To me, this is about ignoring the Obama administration, not being a distraction .

This is the major sticking point to Obama picking Clinton as VP.

President Clinton is making no bones about the fact he wants nothing to do with any of this anymore.

By: DAVE

DAVE — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:13 +0000

COME ON BLITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Not as stupid as you need me to be!

Not as stupid as you need me to be! — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:11:45 +0000

Wolf
The ONLY people talking about this are YOU people in the Media trying to stir the Pot!

I don't know a SINGLE Obama supporter who thinks it is a good Idea at all and conversly no Clinton supporters like it either and I am on many blogs everyday. Please stop this needless push of Hillary Clinton we don't want her.

Wolf Trying to boost rateings or what???

By: Roger M

Roger M — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:11:37 +0000

If Mrs. Clinton had conceded a month or so ago, I would support the Obama/Clinton ticket. But she dragged this out and during the time showed that her political tactics had no boundaries, thus I lost respect for her as a leader. I agree as one poster commented, they are similar in ideas but opposites on personalities so I don’t know how well that would go over.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:11:34 +0000

It's the only way I'll definitely vote for Obama. That said, I'm not sure she wants it. If/when he loses in the fall, it hurts her chances to come back in 2012 making her just another John Edwards.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Any democrat that would vote for Mccain, just because thier precious little Hillary didn't win

Was never a Democrat in the first place

Go buy yourself a red jacket, and an Elephant sticker, and have a temper tantrum in the corner

Go join the likes of Karl Rove

Get Real

By: joann

joann — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:10:30 +0000

IT WOULD BE A "NIGHT MARE TICKT"....TOO MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE...HILLARY CAUSED TOO MUCH DIVISION ESPECIALLY AMONG WOMAN & AFRICAN AMERICANS....

FRESH NEW FACES IN WASHINGTON...

By: Never Obama

Never Obama — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:10:30 +0000

I won't ever vote for Obama- just like Michelle Obama wouldn't vote for HRC.

Freedom of the vote, right?

conscience before party, right?

No unity for the Democrats this election.

The divisive uniter, Obama, has damaged the party and our chances in Nov.

By: Frank, San Francisco

Frank, San Francisco — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:59 +0000

Dear all you Hillary Haters- You CAN'T win without her on the ticket. And by the way exactly what damage has she done??

By: TheRealTruth

TheRealTruth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:47 +0000

PLEASE GOD NO!

This woman is a DISGRACE to the Democratic Party. Its time for her to DISAPPEAR and take her equally power hungry hujsband with her.

I dare CNN to post this...

By: Cherri Castellon

Cherri Castellon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:39 +0000

This would be a great ticket if both would learn form the other. We need a woman with Hillary experience and Obamas vision.

By: gram

gram — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:32 +0000

There will be many of the 17million who will either go to McCain, write in Hillary, or not vote. Nobama at the top of the ticket means the MSM and Dean's boys will lose the top ticket, but probably gain seats in both legislative houses.

By: chris ewen

chris ewen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:29 +0000

I love the idea, and hope that it comes to fruition. They would be unstoppable, and, I might add, incredibly successful.

By: Roz Jones

Roz Jones — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:26 +0000

An Obama-Clinton ticket would contradict the very message Obama has continually voiced during his campaign – that of hope and change. Hillary represents neither and would bring only damaging baggage on the journey to the White House.

By: SR(Queens, NY)

SR(Queens, NY) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:24 +0000

Who's dream is that? Certainly not mine.

By: NO-BAMA

NO-BAMA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:14 +0000

I have already quit the Democratic Party because of this horrible delegate system and disenfranching of voters....It was was right out of the GOP playbook.

If the DEMS even want me to consider them for a vote, they better put Clinton on as V.P.

However, I will not re-join the DEMS (including my money) until the nominating system is overhauled and until they admit swift-boating Hillary Clinton.

By: Mark, Berwyn, PA

Mark, Berwyn, PA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:09:13 +0000

Holy mackeral, CNN!!! Get a grip. No one, repeat, NO ONE, expcet CNN wants Hillary as VP. So please spare us the aggravation of listening to Hillary's surrogate and biggest fan, Wolf Blitzer, and put a freakin' muzzle on him. He is so biased for Hillary it is sickening. Absolutely sickening!!!! Put a sock in it Wolf. Your girl is going back to the Senate. Get over it!!!!

By: Don

Don — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:56 +0000

McCain Headquarters has offered Senator Clinton the VP slot on the GOP side and she will accept it tomorrow night in NY. Senator McCain is reaching across party lines to show he's trying to unify this country. MCCain / Clinton 2008? Hillary 2012 Prez?

By: Texan for Progression

Texan for Progression — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:50 +0000

To 112 above...

Why??? Has OJ said something and let me guess...Obama must have watched the OJ trial back in the '90s and is therefore responsible for whatever it is OJ has now said? People like you and Matt probably aren't Dems anyway and don't get me started on Brian Knoxville, TN. More votes, THE popular vote, and most of the base are redundancies...they are not independent of one another; and moreover, they DON'T apply to Hillary. Try to understand these concepts before posting again.

By: James, SC

James, SC — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:45 +0000

Dream on. Senator Clinton has made that impossible with all the negative words she used during this race. If she runs as second fiddle, then she is admitting that she was wrong! Therefore, she misslead ALL of her supporters.

By: My Fellow Supporters

My Fellow Supporters — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:38 +0000

I would rather not have Hillary on the ticket, as an Obama supporter, but I think she would actually make a good v.p. and could easily make this a win in 2008. The President can decide what additional powers the vice president has beyond the one granted by the constitution (Cast deciding vote in evenly split senate vote), so the argument of governing isn't important.

We, as Democrats, need to realize that victory is the only way any of our ideas and policies can be achieved.

No matter who the nominee picks, let's unite behind them and make this happen.

Democratic Unity '08

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:37 +0000

Hilliary will have to think long and hard about that all of those things that she said through out process are still out there. However she is wiliiing tape over some of her supporter mouths like who showed up at the rules committee over the weekend then she should consider it if offered.

By: TNJed

TNJed — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:27 +0000

Obama-Clinton: It's the only way the Dems can win the Presidency. However, they (Obaclinton) do not understand anything about economics. At least not based on what they say. It's likely they do (meaning they are smart), but feel weak minds will vote for them if they stick with populist crazy leftist rant. =Let's just drive the country further off the rails.